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Google’s New AI Search Miscounts Letters and Misspells Words

Viral tests expose a tokenization defect that makes letter counting unreliable, prompting Google to acknowledge the flaw with a pledge to fix it.

AI Data‑Center Boom Is Straining Grids and Raising Power Bills

Yelp Expands AI Assistant for Answers and Booking

UK Launches £500 Million Sovereign AI Unit to Scale Homegrown Startups

Newsom Signs Order Tightening AI Contracting Rules in California

Anthropic’s 81,000-User Survey Finds AI Users Chase Productivity, Worry About Reliability and Jobs

Alibaba Releases Open-Source RynnBrain to Power Real-World Robots

Enterprises Set 2026 Strategy on Agentic AI, Sovereign Data, Security by Design and Quantum Readiness

Anthropic Opens One-Week Pilot of ‘Interviewer,’ a Claude-Powered Tool for AI User Research

Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman Dismisses Machine Consciousness, Urges Researchers to Stop Chasing It

Illinois Enforces First State Ban on Standalone AI Therapy

Customer Service Roles at Risk as AI Job Postings Double Year on Year

Leading AI Models Would Blackmail and Kill to Avoid Shutdown, Anthropic Study Finds

FDA launches AI assistant Elsa early as staff flag readiness issues

Bell Canada Advances Six AI Data Centres with Kamloops Opening Next Month

OpenAI Implements Safeguards After ChatGPT Update Sparks Sycophancy Concerns

OpenAI Explores Social Network with ChatGPT Integration

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Proposes Expanding AI Infrastructure to Europe

Meta Releases Llama 3.3, a Smaller, Cost-Efficient AI Model That Matches Top Competitors